Category: journalist

Egypt has extended Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein’s imprisonment for another 45 days as the producer, who is in poor health, nears one year of incarceration on dubious charges. Hussein was taken by Egyptian security officers on December 20 last year and accused of reporting “false news with the aim of creating chaos”. An Egyptian…

One of our former colleagues, Yasmine Ryan, sadly passed away in Istanbul last week. She was 35. Yasmine leaves behind a rich legacy of journalism that impacted people around the world. She was a colleague, and dear friend, to many here at Al Jazeera, and the world is poorer for her passing. Yasmine was always…